i recently purchased a BP. i bought "slippy" on the 22nd of dec 2007. he is a yearling and is obviously around the age of 1 year . he is about a foot and a half ,give or take , and is very thick and healthy looking. actually the first day i got him, he decided to bite me while holding him but ill attribute that to the stress of moving and being in a new enviornment. but anyways i waited a week after i bought him to get settled in before i tried to feed him so the following saturday i put slippy a small live black mouse in a different container to feed. he immately srtuck at it but failed to get a hold of the mouse he did this a few more times but to no success. so i decided to slightly injure the mouse and use forceps. when i held the mouse a few inches above the snakes head he would strike at it but again could not grasp it and constict. after about a half hour of the forcep method he started to get noticably angered and started to let out little hisses and started to twitch the end of his tail , so i ened that feeding session...